LATE MR JUSTICE ALPERS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19165, 23 November 1927, Page 9

L ATE MR JUSTICE ALPERS.

WBL TRIBUTE. SERVICE ATJT. PAUL'S. [THE pBESSjpecW Service.] WELLINGTON, November 22. wine representative of every "f eoniniunity, paid tribute "• Lorv of the late Mr Justice i3tieD ;Brpaui , B pro - cathe(iraito ' At*: „ th l burial service was read W'Sacon Johnson assisted by the l^f? 1 Bianchi. The pallbearers V- b A W Blair, Mr 11. F. John«•*?«'H Comi8l«, Mr P. B.Cooke, «*,«*«*, Mr A - J - Abb °."- V , 'those present were: Sir Speaker of the House ives, the Hon. Mr RollesSir Heaton W S A S Chief Justice, Sir Charles vVih Macgrcgor, Mr f kerr Vrfzer Sir Robert Stout, Sir ,Ist, i\Sd the Hon. Mr Hanan, Sir KSI M* W. H. Field, M.P., ,!b ? rSral B. Young, General Offi<3U N.Z. Military Forces, "' , p„i, K.C., Solicitor-General, the ?t Hon Edward Shortt, M.L.C., Mr »'" KC, president of the New *-, Aaw Society, Mr M. Myers, ft 1 ! Findlay, K.C Mr W. Kll, S-M, Mr E. Page, S.M, Mr •j7i l , on,S.M.,MrD.G.A.Cooper l \t 5r P. s - K - Macasscy, Crown Proso- *' m/h' H. Cornish, president of ftelUngton Law Society, Mr C H. ~Lll vice-president of the Imew yrTlaw Sociotv, Messrs R. KenZ fp Levi, H.F.O'Leary,W. Perry, Ti W. Wylie, members of the Coun--lof the' Wellington District Law So•f» Mr W. A. Hawkins, secretary of !1! i a w Zealand and Wellington Law Pieties Mr M.R.Clark, representing Xpreme Court staff, Messrs J. PrcnIrille and A. B. Currie, Crown Law OfllMrJ. W. Macdonald, Public Trusts Mr J. O'Shea, City Solicitor, Dr. 'Sanaa", Messrs W. E. Bethune, A. f K. Torrell, W. A. Kennedy, Dr. C. t Adams, Mr B. T. Norris, Registrar of tJ f New Zealand University, Professor togne Brown, Mr A. T. Markman, Hews W. S. Bennett, J. Marchbanks, pi many others. He interment is to take place in (iriileharch to-morrow. I OTHER REFERENCES. 1 DUNEDIN. | i (TBB PRESS Special Service.] t _—. (/.■"N DUNEDIN, November 22. \ There was- a large attendance of \ umbers of the Bar in the Supreme \ tat this morning when, prior to the . ttmeneement of the business set down i to hearing, reference was made to the I lata of Mr Justice Alpers. I Mr S. Brent, president of the Dunei Jiilaw Society, referred to the great I\% nitsked through the death of ]fr Justice Alpers. The late Mr Jus- \ to Alpers was a cultured gentleman, I timing and delightful to all who had ; tli good fortune to know him, and \ highly esteemed by everyone. He was | i wry able' man, and had a highly dettloped sense of honour and justice, mer allowing litigants to lose sight I tf their morel obligations in their seek--1 fag to enforce a legal' right. All these ■attributes well fitted him for the high 11Ji responsible position he occupied at put tine of Ms death. His appointment to tte»Bench iwas'an extremely popu--I«tte,utjiis'shown by the ovation «• reeetoed on entering a theatre just after his ajpolntment was made public. Mr Jwtie«?Alpers was gifted with a "fflarhble-eoimand of the English language, and Jjs judgments, apart from very clearly and aeenrateJy, were expressed in beautiful %H Although Mr Justice Alpers wjaifyon the Bench a few years, he oid very valuable work, and the Society Mpwied sorrow that he was taken so my from their midst and desired to word He great loss sustained by the' «Mtii of so honourable and learned a JMVMt only to the profession, but to «e whole of New Zealand. They had, matt, much to be thankful for in ««n had left behind him a memory «thei fulfilment of the highest ideals woihed by the British nation. & Justice Sim said it was fitting ut tie profession b. Dunedin should we the opportunity of expressing sor«»and regret at the death of Mr Jus«J Alpers. The Supreme Court had naered a serious loss by his death. In f oner judicial career Mr Justice *JP«n gamed the respect and ■ affection j"w*pe! on the Bench, and ik? ".wHevea, of the members of «e profession with whom he was 2 ™ intact. There was every Pipeet during the next twelve years « to doing the State some service by Za\ M a Jnd ge.-but that prospect' ™ destroyed. All that could be done ™ W express their sorrow with Mrs lad mff h j" family in the loss they AUCKLAND. ™>» tSJOCUTIOS TTXBdRAIC.) AUCKLAND, November 21. CbartT business of tQ e Supreme J/ n t(wla y sympathetic referi *as °ade to the loss to the Bench k - »fi death of Mr Justice Alpers « £ m H ° noUr Mr JuStJCe Reedkhalf !?' Jonnston . president, on ' « the Auckland-Law Society, Mr Alpers's early tiUhT e8 * and trium P n cver obstacles tis the ,e S al Profession and t£ffi mt ?dtothe Bench, Mr Jus*»Vk&? ,d fate which had then fth him struck, and "•hidTh; elen , tle ss force. He had monthT TT, u, th sent «nce within six but his 'indomitable * a ™ witl "n « week till! S ri'i death sentence, while i! l fc-he-itLJ ow ! n £ u P° n an °Pera--411 •* Wlth thc assistance of. ffc-lih . !*: *? dictat€ tbe stor y * "X'-aM. * ln his race with def »th 5? Vateh ;7\ "wplete that story. **«Bvfi, \'£° En R ,a "d- This was i** finann; * the .Purpose of nffordinc 1?» leaving iLi. a . ss ! st, ' ,nre those he j! Ho2 ftS'ft. "Had he lived," CL2 C,wd " d ' " T believe he ?"*• W« c? i, a F eat nnme ° n the i n >ll be L l , m,ss him sorelv and S »?ai n n B we shall see bis S'" fnil «T r 6,l,cere sympathies go do »*nd £?* mn to hj s sorrowing * nt > young iamily." NJ W PLYMOUTH. assocunoij teleobam.) Att-^ November 21. «^oa s t L^ mng of the Supreme Court *sfa fkH momin g. his Honour Mr Kit*'"?? by B€nch and Bar t0 J,,stice Alpers, also T^ffe Bar by ■&L*SSw* E - Wi,Bon ' to whom : ao6i Ostler paid a generous